As unsavoury as it might be, I think the quickest, cleanest way to end the is to take out Putin (Putout Putin, shake it all about)
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'World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.'
The above wasn't written by David Icke or any other 'lunatic conspiracy theorist' but the late Labour Party big hitter Denis Healey who included them in his autobiography The Time of My Life.
For decades he occupied a position to know how the world really worked because he knocked around with the like of David Rockefeller every year at secret meetings along with scores of other immensely rich and powerful people.
Icke and many others, fellow crackpots (of course), have maintained what Healey stated is true long before his book was published in 2015 - and go much farther by suggesting everything we are presented as true on the world stage is a carefully contrived fake reality and pure theatre... there are no competing political ideologies, and the leaders of all developed countries are carefully pre-selected years in advance of being installed into power to play their roles in a grand theatre production.
Presuming Healey was correct, this Ukraine-Russia conflict is no accident and it's been made to happen. For what purpose isn't clear.
As unsavoury as it might be, I think the quickest, cleanest way to end the is to take out Putin (Putout Putin, shake it all about)
70 odd yrs of avoiding war at all costs is commendable, but we are now faced with this situation.
Nuclear weapons are a deterrent to a certain extent, but it now appears that it also gives countries that possess them, the green light to brutally invade a neighbours land with little or no consequences.
Certain sanctions may put the squeeze on Putin, but they aren’t much help to the the 100’s of thousands of Ukrainians that are going to perish in the coming months.
And you're suggesting we declare war on a nuclear nation with a far bigger military than ours 3 days after they invade a country we don't have an alliance pact with. Declare war without the US, Germany, France etc by the way because they wouldn't join us.
At the minute the UK is pumping money and weapons in, and issuing sanctions. I think it's also reasonable to assume that there's a lot of British Special Forces on the ground as well. Maybe the next step is to kick Russia out of SWIFT, which to be fair to our Government they're in support of even though it's the financial equivalent of mutually assured destruction. If Russia invade a NATO country I have no doubt we'll send troops in.
This is a horrible situation and any reaction to is is going to have massive consequences for decades to come, reducing it to simple soundbites like "you want to sit back and watch is it" is ridiculous
Some the footage and testimony that I’ve seen of Ukrainian citizens has been incredibly moving and awe inspiring. Young men having to bare arms having never held a gun before in their lives as their families shelter, the old woman confronting Russian soldiers with sunflower seeds, a man walking into and trying to stop military trucks’ progress with nothing but his body, an old ethnic Russian berating Russian troops, a woman giving birth on the Kyiv metro. And the defiance of those left on Snake Island telling the Russian naval force to do one knowing the next moments would be their last.
There are deep structural forces and a myriad of decisions that have led to this, fascinating and frightening as they are, but these instances of humanity by ordinary people against oppression are the ones I will try to hold in my thoughts the most.
The invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair was a war based on lies and ideology
Nothing was achieved
In The Ukraine Putin has been stoking the fires for nearly a decade
The warning signs were there but instead of massing land forces there so leaving him with the only red button option we have now allowed him to squirrel his way in and now our only option seems to be cobbling together some sort of late defensive reshuffle
It's a completely different situation to Iraq which was a military operation than was totally unjustified
It's awful but we are left with people talking war games when this conflict was avoidable or at least manageable
We are talking not about brain washed religious fanatics difficult to pin down , it's the mass movement of military hardware and troops right on on doorstep .
Now clearly the Russian Army is massive but a small protective force in Eastern Europe , from Great Britain , USA and others could and should have been a far better deterrent than trident which seems to spend half its time in the dock being repaired .
We have fiddled whilst the house is on fire